Sentence examples for many quantitative characters from inspiring English sources

Conversely, for many quantitative characters a small number of loci have been found to have large effects, so may be studied as segregating Mendelian factors, while other loci affecting the same character have lesser effects, so are not amenable to Mendelian analysis.

Progeny of artichoke × wild cardoon crosses generally show a high degree of variation for many quantitative and qualitative characters (Portis et al., 2006; G. Sonnante, D. Pignone and K. Hammer, pers. obs).

In our model, trait inheritance follows quantitative genetics theory (Roughgarden 1979; Falconer and Mackay 1996; Lynch and Walsh 1998), as life-history traits are usually highly polygenic quantitative characters determined by many loci (Roff 1992; Conner and Hartl 2004).

Mass selection has proved to be very effective in improving qualitative characters, and, applied over many generations, it is also capable of improving quantitative characters, including yield, despite the low heritability of such characters.

In many cases, potato species can only be distinguished by means of multivariate analysis of quantitative characters and/or on the basis of geographic origin [ 6- 9].

We identified substantial variation in all traits in the pedigree and all traits were associated with many QTLs that each explained less than 10% of the variation, a typical pattern of quantitative characters.

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For the quantitative characters, each character was measured and means with standard deviations were calculated in ten replicates.

There are many quantitative predictions about revenue and earnings growth.

Detailed descriptions of these quantitative characters have previously been provided elsewhere (e.g. [39], [63], [64]).

Quantitative characters provide a literal value for a variable phenotypic feature (e.g., size, area, count).